Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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